Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well educated, many of them exiles from the crowded East, they are determined to preserve their town's picture-book alpine charm. Tucked away in a sparsely settled 8,885-ft.-high valley, 25 miles south of Aspen as the eagle flies (but 217 miles by paved mountain roads), Crested Butte is an exurbanite's spiritual El Dorado: a 19th century mining town lovingly restored down to the last curlicues on its old gingerbread houses. It sits amid meadows, streams and mountains that seem to have been made for everything from hiking to hang gliding, from hooking...
James Earl Ray, serving a 99-year sentence at Tennessee's Brushy Mountain Prison for killing Martin Luther King, has long wanted to become a jailhouse legal expert. Early one morning last week, as Ray studied in the prison's law library, he was attacked from behind by three fellow cons, all of them black. The gang beat and stabbed Ray, 53, with a foot-long metal window brace. Doctors in nearby Oak Ridge found 22 wounds in Ray's head, neck and chest, but after an hour of surgery and 77 stitches...
...Anna Sandhu Ray, a courtroom sketch artist whom Ray married in 1978, remains convinced that forces outside Brushy Mountain-"people in the Mob and people in Government"-want her husband killed...
Tucked picturesquely into the western slopes of the Alps, the lakeside resort of Talloires, France, features three-star gastronomy and a timeless mountain calm. But the distinguished assembly that gathered there last week had no interest in sightseeing, and lost little time in shattering the Alpine quiet by speaking up loudly in defense of world press freedom...
...What fascinates me," says Ruben Gibson, 32, a black from The Bronx, "is when we lay the stone for the cathedral the same way it comes from the ground, the grain horizontal. St. John the Divine is really a gray mountain." Gibson is foreman of the machine shop. He supervises the lifting of the big limestone slabs from the trucks. Then with chalk he diagrams each block with the outlines of the dozen or more stones that must be cut from it. "The great trick is not to waste any. They are very expensive and they cost as much...